Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 15, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba winning feel puss monday May 15, 1972 expedition called hell London a it was says British army adventurer summing up in these words the expedition that hacked and blasted its Way across some of the most treacherous territory on Earth Darien Gap. Major John Blashford Snell and 33 British scientist and Soldier companions made the first wheeled crossing of the 300-mile stretch of Savage territory straddling the Border Between Panama and colom Bia. During the 99-Day trek they survived tarantulas the size of dinner plates ants whose sting could numb a Man All Day and poisonous snakes lurking in foul swamps. Five colombian soldiers aiding the britishers were sucked to their deaths in an oozing a tied swamp. The crossing completed late last month closed the last unexplored Gap in the pan american Highway net work. The Roadway is to run uninterrupted Miles from Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego at the Southern tip of South America. Only the forbidding strip be tween Chepo Panama and Chigo Rodo Colombia is still to be constructed. Before Blashford Snell led his men through no one had crossed it on wheels. A two truck team of Royal engineers now is pressing Down South America toward Tierra Del Fuego. When they arrive the British expedition will have driven the entire length of the Highway net work. Blashford Snell who re turned Home earlier last week with most of those who crossed the Darien Gap told a news conference thursday the explorers moved Only eyes examined glasses fitted Finkleman optometrist 2nd Fleer 275 Portage at. Phone 942-2496 three Miles a Day through swamps Jungles mountains and Rivers. There were enormous Black ants which drove us mad. And there were thou Sands of snakes. One of the officers had to shoot one off his Boot with his .45 thirty of the 64 members of the expedition who started across the Gap were evacuated by Light planes helicopters and boats after they col lapsed from exhaustion and Jungle ailments. The major said 20 of the expedition s 28 horses died some sucked into the mud. The expedition sup plied by Airdrop of food and gasoline was sponsored by the British army the British museum the . Explorers club and other private organizations. It was aided by the panamanian and colombian armed forces. In All 129 men and five women took part. Mother pickets wants gun Vancouver up mar Garet Lucas whose husband said six shots were fired at him through his apartment door picketed the Public safety building Friday de manding a permit for a gun. Mrs. Lucas joined a civic workers picket line with a sign saying a second class Canadian Mother wants the right to protect her children and thursday she left her two children aged four and 11, in the court clerk s office and they now Are in the care of the children s Aid society. She said she needs a gun to protect them. John Lucas told p olice wednesday that shots were fired through the door of their apartment when he answered a Knock during the night. Six holes were found in the door mrs. Lucas said she was is sued a permit to Cany a gun by ramp May 8 but it was revoked soon after by City police and the gun was seized. The couple were friends of Charles Shepherd and Betty Stein found murdered b a City Home Good Friday. Sheridan Don t fuss Wifky Sticky inside Wood windows. N the tint w Shermaih in Sid Mir Nawid pain Tiitu my Ink it rift pm tit to Ltd in a viral pm Tilimo indirect foul in j it of Imi Iid it five with Niver hot Fishl snap to Chan from inside your Home. 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Morale however is Uncertain and the North Viet namese Are expected to begin their attack on Eon turn within a week. Some soldiers have been stunned by earlier encounters with North vietnamese troops. A Range officer and an infantryman were discussing the current North Vietnam Ese offensive outside a still operating wine and food shop. The infantryman had survived the overrunning of one firebase and spoke with apprehension. The officer new envoys named Ottawa up the Exter Nal affairs department. Friday announced several diplomatic appointments effective within the next few months. Ernest Adolphe Cote 58, of now Deputy solicitor general has been appointed ambassador to Finland succeeding f. G. Hopton who re turns to Canada. Jein martial Cote 51, of Ottawa chief of protocol in. The external affairs department re place Jamef Alan Roberts As Tab Asador to Switzerland or. John Maurice of the Pacific division in Tat external., affairs department Hai been named High commissioner to Jamaica. He succeeds v. C. Moore who returns to Canada Thomas Paul Malone 57, of Edmonton a member of the directing staff of the National defence College at Kingston will be ambassador to Israel. He succeeds c. E. Mcgaughey who replaces or. Malone at the defence College. James Joachim Mccardle so of now ambassador to Ireland will be High commissioner to Australia and Fiji. He succeeds a. R. Menzies whose appointment to the North Atlan tic Council Haf already t been announced Kenneth Douglas Mclow Kaiui 54, of Ottawa director of Secu Rity services for the affairs department Atn Bassadore to Norway succeeding g. K. Grande who returns i to Canada David Chalmer Reece of Winnipeg now participating in the Public service bilingual development program will be High commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago and accredited to bar Bados. He succeeds g. A. Rau who returns to Canada. . Okays environment legislation by the Canadian press Tough environmental Law that a former Premier of Noya Scotia said might produce layoffs in pulp Mills close All sawmills Stop every Farmer if too strictly enforced received provision Al approval in the legislature v the minister by a stroke of a pen can put a million Industry into bankruptcy and the Industry has no recourse to a said former Premier g. I. Smith be fore he was placated by two amendments i n committee of the whole. The House also received a commitment that a select com Mittee of the legislature would study the Bill and its regulations and produce amendments before the Neasure is enacted probably next Spring. Mines minister Glen Bagnell expected to become the new environment minister suggested allowing appeals to a county judge on environmental Deci Sions and the environmental Council of a representative of the forestry Industry. Or Smith had pointed out. That decisions of the minister could Only be appealed to him. Argued that South Vietnam Ese troops would get better the More often they fought but his companion Dis agreed. First i was not afraid but after one or two Battles i know the enemy is very the infantryman said. Every night Korntum pre pares to be attacked. Many of the less than 20 United states advisers working in the City Fly to Plesku to spend a safer night before commuting Back to their jobs in the morning. South vietnamese tanks Roll through the streets to take up defensive positions a t intersections and soldiers Arm anti tank mines already embedded in the Macadam Highway at the City s Northern Edge. These 15-Pound mines newly important to South vietnamese troops who find their enemy equipped with tanks for the first time have already killed several defenders. One was planted without reason in one of Korntum s most heavily travelled streets and no one was told. It blew up a truck four Days ago. Another was for gotten by the Ranger unit that placed it and killed a Ranger officer and two other men in their jeep two Miles North of Korntum. Thousands o f civilians whose names Are Low on the departure list leave the helicopter pad late each afternoon after waiting unsuccessfully for a place on the . Chinooks which Are attempting to evacuate All civilians t o file relative safety of Plesku before the e x p e c t e d enemy attack begins. At the other end of the helicopter shuttle Small be crowd of vietnamese sol Diers and civilians try each Day get a ride Back to Korntum. Only a few of the soldiers make it when they say they Are taking the trip to rejoin their units. But the soldiers Are not returning to Korntum to stay with their units for the expected seige. They All want to help get of their families out. One sol Dier making the trip said his unit was in he devoting Ems time us twice and. Was to Fet cent of on their one South vietnamese 1 d i e . My spirit is in the As often happens in Viet Nam the existence of an Effort to help people can be interpreted in varying ways. American planes Are Gionfr to bomb Korntum. Are very. Afraid of a group of men waiting to be evacuated Why Are they sure bombs wit fail the americans would not be evacuating us unless they Means to drop primarily1 designed to expected massive barrage of North vietnamese artillery and rockets. Secondarily it simplifies american South vietnamese Supply prob lems reducing the amount of Rice that has to be flown into the encircled City. Although the North Viet namese Are expected1 to at tack within a week Korntum has been hit by few rockets so seem just to be ranging in on the tar gets they one Mili tary. Source said. Most of the rockets have hit on or around Korntum s Airfield. The soldiers in Korntum spend their Days at activities ranging from digging bunkers to playing billiards and drinking Rice wine and Beer in the Only poolroom or bars still open for Busi Aness. On All sides of the few recreation spots shops Are locked or boarded up. Be fore they left some of the shopkeepers scrawled a message in red paint on their Walls Security Agen cies have received orders to shoot looters on the dozen of trucks Are piled High with household posses Sions of relatively wealthy people who left by plane. The trucks Are waiting until the Road South is cleared. It is unlikely military sources say that the Road will be secured before the siege begins. Cigarettes Are expensive a n d hondas Are cheap. There Are no cigarettes being brought to Korntum and there is no Way of get Ting hondas out except by South vietnamese air Craft. Peaches butter Pom to Spray 9 i. Aerosol tin pizza chef boy a Dee Pepperoni 1 0 78 01. Pkg. Pizza sausage i 0 7 8 pkg. 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